Nationally recognized, award winning playwright, Tammy Ryan offers this six week playwriting workshop to help playwrights jumpstart the writing of a new full length play.
This workshop is open to writers of all genres and levels of experience who are interested in jump starting the writing of a full length play. We focus on process, with craft lectures, and writing exercises to get your ideas on paper. Each week begins with prompts that help you to create three dimensional characters, visualize the physical world of your play and build step by step to an “action map” from which to launch the writing of your first draft.  You can bring an already
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This workshop is open to writers of all genres and levels of experience who are interested in jump starting the writing of a full length play. We focus on process, with craft lectures, and writing exercises to get your ideas on paper. Each week begins with prompts that help you to create three dimensional characters, visualize the physical world of your play and build step by step to an “action map” from which to launch the writing of your first draft.  You can bring an already started play, an idea, or simply be open to discovery. By the end of the workshop we’ll share your first scenes for feedback.
TAMMY RYAN is a resident playwright of New Dramatists. Her award winning plays have been performed across the United States and internationally. Works include Lost Boy Found in Whole Foods. (Francesca Primus Prize) Tar Beach, (Kilroy’s List) and Molly’s Hammer, (nominated for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize) Locally her plays have been performed at the Pittsburgh Playhouse including Soldier’s Heart, A Confluence of Dreaming, Baby’s Blues, FBI Girl, and Pig. The Music Lesson, originally commissioned by Prime Stage received the AATE Distinguished New Play Award, professionally premeired at Florida Stage in 2000 and has since had over fifty productions nationwide and in Canada. Tammy teaches playwriting at Point Park University, Duquense University and has led master classes and workshops across the country. Her plays are available from Dramatists Play Service, Dramatic Publishing Company, Broadway Play Publishing and Playscripts. For more information about Tammy go to: www.tammyryan.net
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